If you use IRC or want to be create with your emails and only use text, here’s an ASCII generator. You type in the words you want to appear in text, the style, etc and then can cut and paste that text just about anywhere. Here’s MAKE and here’s where to make your own…
Here are some photos of the bookstore / event from our O’Reilly peeps at the “What the Hack” hacker conference that went on over the weekend in Holland. Flickr photos here. Google news here. And 2600’s posts about it (Emmanuel is keeping an excellent travel log).
MAKE pal John Maushammer sent us some great news! The CVS Disposable Camcorder (mentioned about a month ago) has now been usably hacked so that videos can be downloaded over USB – no need to desolder the flash memory. Finally, some healthy free-market competition to CVS’s expensive development service, just like in the analog world. Here are the details!…
The Sony Librie is a stunning e-ink ebook reading device with the most print-like book reading experience you can have at this time (the display moves microscopic black and white particles held within spherical microcapsules). For the most part, it hasn’t been a success in the market; Sony crippled it with DRM, and only released in it Japan. But the hackers and tinkerers of the world have taken this device and modded the firmware. Now we’re going to show you how to make non-DRMed ebooks for free…
Earlier this year Microsoft and ASUS showed a new technology that might be baked in to future laptops, an auxiliary display, a small LCD on the outside of a laptop that can display email, battery, CPU, Wi-Fi signal and all sorts of things. It’s much like the Flipstart (that hasn’t shipped). I like the idea, but don’t wait to wait until Windows Vista/Longhorn so here’s how to make your own that’s almost as good…It’s also a great and cheap way to add a LCD to a PC case, this HOW TO uses the now free Konfabulator! Here’s how!…
Awhile back we showed you how to annotate your photos with the location they were taken and then display them in Google Earth. But, photos aren’t the only thing you can tag with location coordinates- you can also tag and view bookmarks from del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site. Once you tag them, you can then view in Google Earth and do a virtual tour and more! Here’s how…
Friday night at DEFCON the from the shadows crew gave MAKE the exclusive scoop on the Kegbot. A linux-based Keg system that tracks users, tallies calories and more. We interviewed one of the MAKERS as well as getting a lot of photos of the construction to completion.
